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existence - 17 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | existence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | life |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, being, breath, continuance, continuation, duration, endurance, entity, essence, individuality, journey, permanence, perseverance, presence, rat race*, real world*, reality, something, subsistence, survival, world, hand one is dealt, lifing, the big game |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimateness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
existence, being, entity, ens, esse, subsistence, reality, actuality; positiveness; fact, matter of fact, sober reality; truth [more]; actual existence., presence (existence in space) [more]; coexistence [more]., stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream [more]; no joke., center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital principle [science of existence], ontology.
-verbs
exist, be; have being; subsist, live, breathe, stand, obtain, be the case; occur (event) [more]; have place, prevail; find oneself, pass the time, vegetate., consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted by., come into existence; arise (begin) [more]; come forth (appear) [more]., become (be converted) [more]; bring into existence [more]., abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
-adjectives
existing existent, under the sun; in existence; extant; afloat, afoot, current, prevalent; undestroyed., real, actual, positive, absolute; true [more]; substantial, substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential., well-founded, well-grounded; unideal, unimagined; not potential [more]; authentic.
-adverbs
actually; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed; de facto, ipso facto.
-phrases
ens rationis; ergo sum cogito ["I think therefore I am" (Latin)]; "thinkest thou existence doth depend on time?" [Byron].
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| Antonyms: | inexistence |
| Main Entry: | individual |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | singular person, thing |
| Synonyms: | being, body, character, child, creature, dude*, entity, existence, human being, man, material, matter, mortal, number, party, person, personage, self, somebody, something, soul, stuff, substance, type, unit, woman, singleton |
| Antonyms: | group |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lifetime |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | span of animate being's existence |
| Synonyms: | all one's born days, career, continuance, course, cradle to grave, days, endurance, existence, life, life span, natural life, period, time |
| Main Entry: | living |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lifestyle; source of income |
| Synonyms: | bread and butter, existence, income, job, keep*, livelihood, maintenance, means, mode, occupation, salt*, subsistence, support, sustenance, way, work, alimentation, sustainment, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | occurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, development |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, affair, appearance, circumstance, condition, contingency, emergency, episode, event, exigency, existence, incidence, incident, instance, juncture, manifestation, occasion, pass, piece, proceeding, routine, scene, situation, state, thing*, transaction, materialization, transpiration |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | reality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | facts of existence |
| Synonyms: | absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, bottom line*, brass tacks*, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, existence, genuineness, how things are, like it is, materiality, matter, name of the game*, nuts and bolts*, object, palpability, perceptibility, phenomenon, presence, real world*, realism, realness, sensibility, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, truth, validity, verisimilitude, verity, way of it, what's what |
| Antonyms: | belief, fantasy, hypothesis, imagination, theory |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | something |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entity |
| Synonyms: | article, being, commodity, existence, individual, object, substance, thing, existent |
| Antonyms: | nothing |
| Main Entry: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bread*, bread and butter, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt*, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, necessities |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vitality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, spirit |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, audacity, bang, being, bloom, bounce, clout, continuity, drive, endurance, existence, exuberance, fervor, force, go, guts*, intensity, life, liveliness, pep, pizzazz*, power, pulse, punch, snap, sparkle, spunk*, stamina, starch*, steam, strength, stuff*, verve, vigor, vim, vivacity, zest, zing*, zip*, get-up-and-go, lustiness, robustness, venturesomeness, vivaciousness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | object that exists |
| Synonyms: | article, being, body, creature, existence, individual, item, material, matter, organism, presence, quantity, single, something, stuff, subsistence, substance, thing, singleton |
| Antonyms: | abstract, concept, idea |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, intimacy, involvement, judgment, know-how*, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, forebearance, inwardness, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | identity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's individuality |
| Synonyms: | character, circumstances, coherence, existence, identification, integrity, name, oneness, personality, self, status, distinctiveness, ipseity, particularity, selfdom, selfhood, selfness, singleness, singularity, uniqueness |
| Main Entry: | presence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupancy, attendance |
| Synonyms: | being, companionship, company, existence, habitation, occupation, residence, subsistence, ubiquity, whereabouts, inhabitance, latency, omnipresence, potentiality, ubiety |
| Antonyms: | absence |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word, corporeality, existent, materiality |
| Main Entry: | entity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nature of a being |
| Synonyms: | actuality, essence, existence, integral, integrate, quintessence, reality, subsistence, substance, sum, system, totality, quiddity |
| Antonyms: | abstract |
| Main Entry: | life |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being |
| Synonyms: | animal, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood*, growth, human, human being, individual, living, man, mortal, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, survival, vitality, woman, animateness, living being, living thing, metabolism, mortal being, substantiality, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, wildlife |
| Antonyms: | death, inanimacy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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